Streamlink Twitch GUI

A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink

Livestreamer Twitch GUI has been renamed

Streamlink Twitch GUI, previously known as Livestreamer Twitch GUI, has been renamed in early december 2016. A comment regarding this change can be found in the thread "The future of Livestreamer Twitch GUI".

Description

A graphical user interface on top of the Streamlink command line interface.

Streamlink Twitch GUI is a NW.js application, which means that it is a web application written in JavaScript (EmberJS), HTML (Handlebars) and CSS (LessCSS) and is being run by a Node.js powered version of Chromium.

Recent releases / Changelog / Wiki / Chat

Features

Available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
Supports both Streamlink and Livestreamer
Browse streams by popularity, game, community or team
Watch streams in the video player of your choice
Watch multiple streams at once
Access your subscriptions and followed channels or games
Filter streams by channel- or broadcasting language
Receive desktop notifications when new streams start
Join the Twitch chat by using customizable chat applications
Rich settings menu with lots of customizations and presets
Individual channel settings
Integrated default and dark themes

Why

One of the reasons for having bad viewing experiences on Twitch.tv is the usage of their HTML5 or Flash video player. Especially on mobile desktop devices, high CPU and memory usage and lack of GPU acceleration of the web browser can cause major issues like buffering, stuttering or low video playback frame rates.

With Streamlink Twitch GUI you're not dependent on your web browser and streams can be watched in the video player of your choice, enabling a smooth video playback. In addition to that, variable stream buffers will help you countering bad network conditions.

Please bear in mind that you're bypassing any ads run by Twitch by using this software. If you want to support Twitch or a single broadcaster, please consider buying Twitch Prime or subscribing to the broadcaster's channel. Thank you!

Download

See the Wiki for detailed installation and configuration instructions.

Streamlink Twitch GUI depends on Streamlink.
Install Streamlink prior to using this application or you won't be able to launch any streams.

Packages

Chocolatey (Windows):
choco install streamlink-twitch-gui

AUR (Arch Linux):
pacaur -S streamlink-twitch-gui
pacaur -S streamlink-twitch-gui-git

Homebrew Cask (MacOS):
brew cask install streamlink-twitch-gui

Solus:
sudo eopkg install streamlink-twitch-gui

Development version

If you want to test the latest unreleased version, you can do this by cloning the repository and building the application off the master branch. Further instructions can be found down below or here.
Please don't forget to report any bugs you may encounter. Thank you very much for helping!

Build

Building the application on your own is simple. Just make sure that the latest stable versions of Node.js and Yarn (or Npm) are installed on your system.
Then run the following lines from the path of your cloned repository to install all dependencies and to start the build process. You will then find the built executable inside the build/releases folder. See here for more detailed instructions.

yarn global add bower grunt-cli
yarn install
grunt release

Contributing

Every contribution is welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md first.

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